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* Cord in ''[[Anathem]]''.
* To an extent, Rosalie in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.
* The main character of C. E. Murphy's ''[[Urban Shaman]]'' trilogy is one of these, being a dedicated car enthusiast who restored a 1969 Mustang all by herself, and worked as a mechanic for the Seattle Police Dept. She even continues to use the idea of fixing a car to work her healing magics (fixing a broken windshield, replacing a flat tire, using windshield wipers to clear her vision, etc.).
* Violet Baudelaire from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is also a [[Gadgeteer Genius]], while she is only fifteen.
* Nadia Chernyshevski of the ''[[Red Mars Trilogy]]'' was a nuclear engineer in Siberia before her job building mankind's first base on Mars. Her skills in solving technological problems earned her the nickname "Universal Solvent".
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* Dagny Taggart, the main heroine of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', can't live without her railroad, is not too keen on pointless parties that other rich girls go to and has a very masculine dress code.
* Ellie Linton, from ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'', is quite competent at fixing machinery, which, considering that she's a ranch-raised country girl, is [[Truth in Television]].
* Linda Connor, from Swedish SF author [[Anders Blixt]]'s dieselpunk spy adventure ''[[Iskriget]] (The Ice War)'', is a trained mechanic with a solid professional reputation in her home town. She "saves the day" with her skills at several occasions during the story. She usually wears workmen's clothes and has a male haircut, both for purely practical reasons.
* Although Alice has spent most of her life studying sorcery her real gift is with watches and mechanical things, including her creating [[Title Drop|The]] [[The Witch Watch|Witch Watch]].
* In ''[[1632|1636: The Viennese Waltz]]'', a young Austrian aristocrat is fascinated by the way a certain "up-timer" girl's face lights up when she talks about engines and building things. Granted she was already a good-looking girl, but that facial expression is what comes back to his mind when he explains to his father that he very seriously wants to marry her
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